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Add to SafariWhen comparing Take Command vs Rapid environment editor, the Slant community recommends Rapid environment editor for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” Rapid environment editor is ranked 24th while Take Command is ranked 52nd. The most important reason people chose Rapid environment editor is:
Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.
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Pros
Pro Text processing tools
Regular expression pattern enabled tools for text filtering, searching, substitution, and conversion.
Pro Powerfull scripting language
Powerfull scripting language with a lot of commands and predefined variables.
Pro File compression tools
File compression tools, e.g. bz2, gz, tar, 7zip and zip.
Pro FTP Command Line Client
Command line driven FTP client.
Pro Batch Debugger
It has a GUI Debugger for Batch files as well the own scripting language (BTM).
Pro Warnings
Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.
Pro Easy
Editing of Windows environment variables is easy, splits long lines.
Pro Resolve variables values, make easy a refactoring of PATH by extracting different elements in their own new variable
Pro Convert variables between verbatim and expandable
Windows supports referencing variables within variables, but only if they're marked in the registry as expandable, and conversion between the two types is exposed in the context menu for each variable.
Cons
Con Simple
Some may not consider it a "power" user tool.
